Seeing AI

Microsoft Corporation

About this app

Seeing AI is a free app that narrates the world around you. Designed with and for the blind and low vision community, this ongoing research project harnesses the power of AI to open up the visual world by describing nearby people, text and objects.

Seeing AI provides tools to assist with a variety of daily tasks:
• Read - Hear text as soon as it appears in front of the camera. Document alignment provides audio cues to capture a printed page and recognize the text along with its original formatting. Ask Seeing AI about the contents to easily find the information you need.
• Describe - Take photos to hear a rich description. Ask questions to focus on the information you care about. Explore photos by moving your finger over the screen to hear the location of different objects.
• Products - Scan barcodes and Accessible QR codes using audio beeps to guide you; hear the product name and package information when available.
• People - Save photos of friends and coworkers so you can recognize them later. Get an estimate of their age, gender, and expression.
• Currency - Recognize currency notes.
• Colors - Identify colors.
• Light - Hear an audible tone corresponding to the brightness of your surroundings.
• Photos and Videos in other apps - Just tap “Share” and “Recognize with Seeing AI” to describe media from Mail, Photos, WhatsApp, and more.

Seeing AI continues to evolve as we hear from the community, and AI research advances.

Questions, feedback or feature requests? Email us at [e-mail].

Ratings and reviews

I can't find the "browse photos" button..... I was hoping to use this app to read out documents/texts already on my phone, but I can't figure out how to do that! Then I thought I might take a screen shot of my Messages and have that read out to me.... no. Also, there is no Help Site, so I am stuck! (Yes, there is help info, but it's very limited and has no search function. One star for now, but if the developers can instruct me I will give more

So great to see this fine app here on Android. Fills out the space nicely, as there aren't enough apps like it over here. I've had this on my other phone since it's release I believe, and this is to my knowledge the *only* app with a light detector in it. Great when you're in an unfamiliar place overnight, such as a hotel for a gig and want to make sure your room is as dark as you expect it to be... I find the short-text feature very satisfactory as well, just as much as it is elsewhere.

For an initial release of an app that has OCR, color detection, people count and description, scene description, and more, very impressive! One break or make test of an OCR app is out of focus text that isn't perfectly straight. Holding a bag of candies and scanning the ingredients, out of focus and not aligned, did quite well! Impressed and will be quite useful for those with limited vision or aging eyes. Definitely fast enough to be used besides magnifying glasses. Fun, fast, useful!

What’s new

• Simplified the main screen to reduce swipes with TalkBack. Some controls are now available in the menu
• The Describe tab can now recognize products and QR codes. Tap the button in the bottom-right to get more information
• Review photos and documents from the past 30 days, even after closing the app. Go to "History" in the menu
• Use Seeing AI in a different language than your phone. Choose your preferred language in Android settings
• Ask Seeing AI is now available in all supported languages